Thursday, September 01, 2011

Thought for the day

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

-- Badtux the Shorter Penguin
Funny how an entire long diatribe of mine can be summarized in one sentence, eh?

Posted by BadTux at 9/01/2011 09:37:00 PM
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6 comments:

  1. Jerry Critter1/9/11 10:46 PM

    That explains why the uncivilized don't want to pay taxes.

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  2. vilstef2/9/11 6:39 AM

    This is great minds thinking alike-I've been say the same for years.

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  3. BadTux2/9/11 9:04 AM

    Vilstef, I have no idea how this ended up posted to the blog, it was originally a coda to an article a couple years ago about the deadbeat problem in paying for common infrastructure such as the parking lot of a townhouse complex (the problem the Libertarians refuse to examine). I was doing housecleaning (blog-cleaning?) last night, somehow this percolated to the top.

    Jerry, yep.

    - Badtux the Blog-cleaning Penguin

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  4. Karen2/9/11 11:13 AM

    I was doing housecleaning (blog-cleaning?) last night, somehow this percolated to the top.

    I'm glad it did. Occasionally a sound-byte comes along that actually does summarize the situation well; you've got one here.

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  5. Jazzbumpa2/9/11 4:49 PM

    Beat you by a whole month, though I had to borrow the idea, third hand.

    http://jazzbumpa.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-it-worth-it-to-you.html

    You can't blame this one on the 3-time-zone difference.

    Cheers!
    JzB

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  6. BadTux2/9/11 4:56 PM

    This post was originally from 2009 and while I was cleaning tags I somehow managed to bump it yesterday. So no, you don't get props for the inspiration, Jzb :).

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